Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: let thy glory be above all
the earth., – Ps 57:11
At an official height of 8,848 meters above sea level, Mount Everest
is the tallest mountain in the world. It was identified as such only in 1852 by
Radhanath Sikdar, an Indian surveyor, using trigonometric calculations from
geological survey data.
Do you know what the tallest mountain in the world was before 1852?
That’s a trick question that many persons, even geographers, fall for. No, it
wasn’t “Mount Kangchenjunga”. The tallest mountain in the world before 1852 was
– and has always been – “Mount Everest”!
That people did not go to the icy wilderness of the Tibet/Nepal region
until the 1800s to measure it did not make it “shorter” than other known
tall mountain. It was just as tall all the while. Our ignorance of its height
and majesty takes nothing from it.
This is also very true of God Almighty. We can sit in our armchairs and
philosophically put Him in a bottle; explaining what He can and cannot do, who
He can and cannot be, and all what not. But that doesn’t change who He is: our
ignorance of His glory and majesty takes nothing from Him.
Nevertheless, it does take a lot from us. Because what we can rightly
demand from God is intrinsically tied to what we believe He is and what we
believe HE can do for us.
When the Psalmist says “O magnify the LORD with me” (Ps 34:3), he isn’t
asking us to make God bigger than He actually is; he’s only asking us to join
him in declaring God’s greatness in ever increasing ways.
This is the essence of worship. If the God you worship is a BIG God, you
can trust Him to do BIG things for you, but if you have, inadvertently, reduced
Him in your eyes, then you limit what you can get from Him. For “without faith
it is impossible to please God”, (Heb 11:6).
Make a decision today, to “Magnify” your God. Because now, as ever, we
need God MORE in our lives.
AMEN.
More Blessings await you today; you’ll not
miss them in Jesus’ Name.
GREG ELKAN
No comments:
Post a Comment